Stories of Home

Place, Identity, Exile

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Stories of Home: Place, Identity, Exile offers a window into the distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across disciplines. The essays in this volume consider how people “speak” and “story” home in their everyday lives, why “home” is central to our notion of who we are, and how making home a unit of analysis in research makes a strong conceptual contribution to the field of communication. This collection engages home from diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the same time the essays converse with each other by centering their foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile. Home—how we experience it and what it says about the selves we come to occupy—is an exigent question of our contemporary moment. Stories of Home: Place, Identity, Exile delivers timely and critical perspectives on these important questions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-07-17
Mått149 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739194942

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Chapter 1: Tracing Home’s Habits: Affective Rhythms, Devika ChawlaChapter 2: Musing on Nomadism: Being and Becoming at Home on the Reindeer Range, Myrdene AndersonChapter 3: Be(Coming) Home, Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa WyattChapter 4: Childhood Homelessness: A Phenomenologial Reflection, Erik GarrettChapter 5: Home/less in Appalachia, Timothy BairdChapter 6: Motown Magic and Haunted Hollers: From One Othered America to Another, Rebecca Mercado ThorntonChapter 7: The Exile Narratives, Amarado RodriguezChapter 8: Men Making Home, Caryn MedvedChapter 9: Scott and Helen Nearing and the Narrative of the American Homestead as Retreat, Jennifer AdamsChapter 10: Trashing Home, Sean GleasonChapter 11: A Kind of Hush: Adoptee Diasporas and the Impossibility of Home, Anne M. HarrisChapter 12: Bodies of Working Class Knowledge, Imaginative Mobilities, and Kinesthetic Homes, Stacy Holman JonesChapter 13: Finding the Backroads Home, Tessa W. CarrChapter 14: Becoming Home (Elsewhere): Patriarchy Du Jour and the Resilience of Privilege, Craig Gingrich-PhilbrookConclusion: Home, Again, Stacy Holman Jones and Devika Chawla

Communication scholars Devika Chawla and Stacy Holman Jones have gathered writings that examine the meaning of home. Most of the contributors are communication scholars, but anthropology, art, education, and counseling are also represented. The collection is full of captivating, rich personal stories providing insight into the authors’ lives and the connection between personal experience and their perspectives of the meaning of home. For example, home can be a physical place in which banal chores and habits are performed or an integral part of the self that is constructed, to mention just two of many possibilities. The contributors' varied backgrounds lead to a variety of perspectives that span economic, ethnic, and regional boundaries. Taken together, these musings about home and the diversity of views of what home means to different people offer a coherent and engaging account of home from philosophical and personal perspectives. A valuable resource for those interested in the elusive nature of home. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. General readers.